Improved apparatus for extracting oil from fish



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VILLIAM H. H. GLOVER, OF SOUTHOLD, NEW YORK.

IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR EXTRACTING OIL FROM FISH.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 96,3l5, dated November 2, 1869.V

Specification of certain Improvements in Presses Jfor Pressing Fish, invented by VIL- LIAM H. H. GLOVER, of Southold, inthe county of Suffolk, and State of New York.

Nature cmd Objects of the Intention.

My'present invention, its title indicates, has reference to an apparatus for extracting the oil from fish by pressure, and is designed to improve the construction set forth in the Letters Patent of the United States, granted to Israel Peel: and myself, dated May 19, 1863.

The principal features of my present invention relate to the combination of the press and of boxes, having open bottoms, and hung in a revolving trame, with a stationary table at the point, at which they are filled, to support the material which is to be compressed;

the combination of the press-boxes, having struction ot the press-boxes, in the form hereinafter described, byv which nearly all the space in the revolving frame is utilized, as hereinafter more fully set forth.

Description of the Accompanying Dra/inflige Figure l is a side eleva-tion of my improved machine.

Figure 2. is aplan of the same.

Figure 3 is a horizontal section of one of the press-boxes.

Figure 4 is a vertical transverse sect-ion of the bottom, on which the press-boxes are supported and elevated when the material is pressed.

A B O D and E E E E are parts of the stationary frame of the machine, A being the part which forms the lower portion of the frame, B being the part which forms the middle portion of the main frame, C being the side portion ofthe frame, which supports the bed on which the press-boxes are filled, D being the cap, to which the platen of the press is attached, and E E E E being the rods which secure the previously-described parts of the frame together.

The parts A, B, C, and .D may be made of cast-iron, but the rods or standards E should be made of wrought-iron.

vThe side portion C, of the frame, is supported on the standard E, which lis shown at the left hand in figs. l and 2, and firmly attached thereto, so as to support the fillingtable F, which is firmly attached to it. This iilling-table F is made of the proper size and form to form a bottom Jfor one of the pressboxes, and thus preventing the material to be pressed from falling out of the press-box while said box is being iilled.

Gis the revolving frame, in which the pressboxes are hung upon pins, e, which extend from the revolving frame through the inter.- st-ice's in the sides of the press-boxes, as shown.

H H H are the press-boxes, in which the material to be pressed is placed.

These are made of the form shown in the drawings, so as to occupy all the available space in the frame G, or nearly so.

grate-bars, so as to form openings for the oil to escape. The said boxes are open at the bottom, as already mentioned, and as shown in figs. 2 and 3. in number, so that while the material in one of them is being pressed, another of the boxes may be filled, and the pressed material dis` charged from the third.

I is a lever, which is connected tothe revolving frame by a ratchet-clutch, to facilitate the turning of said frame, so as to bring the press-boxes into position.

It is well to place a piece of tin, or other sheet-metal, J, between the press-boxes, to

prevent oil from spirting in that direction when the material is pressed.

K is the platen of the press, which is firmly 'i l press M, though any other suitable means of Their, sides are'made up of a series of slats, likeA These press-boxes are three applying the pressure may be adopted. The said bed L is slotted like a grate, to allow the oil to escape through its bottom.

It is also provided with lugs, or projections, b h, which, when one of the press-boxes is swung into place, catch over corresponding lugs, c c, formed upon the press-box at the bottom.

It will be Well to hang a piece of canvas, or something equivalent, against the outside of the machine, opposite the position of the pressboX which may be under the platen, to prevent the oil from spirting around the room.

Op eration.

One of the press-boxes, being brought to the proper position for -filling over the fillingtable, is rst filled with the material to be pressed, the revolving frame is then turned against the sun, so as to bring the same pressbox under the platen, when pressure being applied, the bed L is raised up, and with it the press-box, so as to press the material between the platen and the bed, and discharge the oil. This having been done, the bed L and the press-box are lowered to the position shown in the drawings, and the next pressbox having been filled, it is brought around to the same position under the platen, and over the bed L, andthe material it contained subjected to the same operation7 While the material that has been already pressed being removed from over the bed L is discharged, and another box which is over the illin g-table may be filled.

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I claim, as my inventionl. The combination of the stationary platen K, sliding press-box H, and bed L.

2. The combination of the bed L, press-box 

